Fear
idea · 8 works · 10 mentions · 19 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Fear the deity
fear · timidity · al-khawf · the timid · afraid · confidence · danger · fearlessness · misgiving · security
in the texts
Stromata
Fear, analyzed as the product of the law rather than a passion in itself.
Fear, then, of which the law is the begetter, is not a passion.
And indeed the first inclination toward salvation appears to us as faith, after which fear and hope and repentance, together with self-control and endurance, advancing, lead us on both to love and to knowledge.
"For the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and good understanding is to all who do it.
De Fuga in Persecutione
The emotion of timidity before persecutors, diagnosed throughout as the root vice motivating flight and ransom.
but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment"—surely the fire of the lake;
" Finally, in the Apocalypse He offers the timid not flight, but, among the rest of the reprobate, a portion in the lake of sulphur and fire, which is the second death.
Do you fear a man, O Christian—you who ought to be feared by angels, since you are to judge angels;
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Fear, treated as intensified shame past the point of despairing of self-encouragement, marked by inward heat and livid colour.
But in fear the shame grows great until despair of self-emboldening (3) sets in;
Tusculan Disputations
The passion of dread regarding future evil
And if confidence — that is, a firm trust of mind — is a certain knowledge and a grave opinion of one not rashly assenting, fear too is a distrust of an expected and impending evil;
For fear is, as distress of a present evil, so that of a future one.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Fear, defined as the soul's affection by an anticipated harm that is hidden or merely imagined, given as a model of how states of the soul are to be characterised.
and in characterising fear, “it is the soul's being affected by a hidden or imagined harm whose occurrence is awaited”;
Letters to Lucilius
The passion debated as either wholly absent from or merely moderated in the brave and wise man.
" he says, "will the brave man not fear impending evils?
"But I think him mad who does not greatly fear impending evils.
Such things are to be feared by the timid.
Scorpiace
The emotion identified as the root of denial, contrasted with perfect love and consecrated fear of God.
"For perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment, and he who fears is not perfect in love.
Hiero
The fear, suspicion, and lack of confidence that spoil tyrannical pleasure and that Simonides later seeks to transform into public security.
for naturally the mercenaries would also be able to give fearlessness and security in the fullest measure to the labourers and cattle in the country, and the benefit would not be confined to your own estates, but would be felt up and down the countryside.
Even the death of those whom he feared does not restore him to confidence;
To fear a crowd, and yet fear solitude, to fear to go unguarded, and yet fear the very men who guard you, to recoil from attendants unarmed and yet dislike to see them armed—surely that is a cruel predicament!